Guess who’s having the worst week ever? Add to Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s many woes — including dueling scandals, local and federal law enforcement probes, and a $400K ad buy by a conservative group demanding his resignation — a poll of likely GOP voters, showing Horne trailing his primary…
Robert Petzel, the Under Secretary for Health in the Department of Veterans Affairs, has resigned, according to a statement from the department.Petzel led the health component of the national VA system, which is being investigated for allegations of falsified wait times at the nation’s VA hospitals, including claims from one…
A $5 million claim has been filed against Maricopa County and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, by the family of a Glendale man who was killed in December after being T-boned by MCSO Deputy Sean Pearce.Pearce, the son of recalled Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, had been going 81 mph in the…
Spare the rod, spoil the Horne-dog. Arizona Public Integrity Alliance, the conservative group Horne unsuccessfully SLAPP-sued for defamation, is giving Attorney General Tom Horne the first of many birchings he’ll no doubt be receiving this year, in this new ad recounting his vehicular hit and run back in 2012, with…
Army Command Sergeant Major Martin Barreras, a 49-year-old from Tucson, died earlier this week at a hospital in San Antonio, a week after being wounded in Afghanistan.Barreras is the 50th soldier from Arizona to die in connection with the war in Afghanistan…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged offenders either have tattoos…
A Republican congressional candidate says Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema is just waiting for Senator John McCain to be “carried out on a stretcher” so she can run for his Senate seat.Wendy Rogers, one of the Republican candidates vying to unseat Sinema in Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District, made the comment at…
Insight into the allegations of falsified wait times at the nation’s VA hospitals, which one former doctor claims resulted in the deaths of 40 veterans in Phoenix, is still weeks away from being made public.The US Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held a hearing this morning to get the latest…
Diane Humetewa, a Hopi Indian from Arizona, will be the first Native American woman to serve as a federal judge. This is actually the second time the 49-year-old former prosecutor has made history, because in 2007 she became the first Native American woman U.S. Attorney…
Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk has rejected the findings of an administrative law judge in the campaign finance case against Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, and reinstated her original order, demanding that Horne and AG outreach director Kathleen Winn reimburse donors $400,000. In a decision filed Wednesday afternoon, Polk concluded…
A Lake Havasu man has been arrested for using Twitter to threaten to kill House Speaker John Boehner.According to a federal complaint, Ronald Dean Frazier operated a Twitter account with a profile picture of Boehner with crosshairs on his forehead, and posted tweets such as, “Did you know I’m going…
Back in 1990, Arizona had the 12th-largest share of immigrants in its population.More than two decades later, Arizona now has the 11th-largest share of immigrants among the 50 states, according to the Pew Research Center…
So, I had our graphic artist walk out of the room pissed the other day because the publisher asked my opinion over a Cinco de Mayo advertisement they were planning to publish and ended up publishing. The graphic showed a row of chickens with sombreros. The publisher asked if I…
Two decades ago, Arizona stepped into the business of charter schools — publicly funded and independently operated schools given a kind of autonomy never before seen in public education in America. Traditional school districts have layers of administrators that may dictate changes, whereas a charter operator easily can pivot on…
Sitting across from me in the office of her attorney, Tom Ryan, Sarah Beattie relates the details of her work for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne in “constituent services,” which really amounted to working on the AG’s re-election campaign, creating documents, and, most importantly, raising money. In fact, according to…
Colin Chisholm strode into a Citibank on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California. Burning a hole in his pocket was a check for $120,000. He asked for the cash in $100 bills, then hopped a plane back to Minnesota with all the makings of an escape. From his historic Deephaven…
So there were zero protesters outside the University Club in Phoenix Tuesday night for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s fundraiser, featuring Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, author of Sand Land’s anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070. Which surprised me. I mean, recalled, disgraced former state Senator Russell…
Like baseball and apple pie, dogs biting mailmen is something of an American tradition — not a tradition the Postal Service is particularly pleased with, mind you.Letter carriers actually do get attacked by dogs every year (more than 5,500 in 2013), and Phoenix is now one of the top spots…
Sitting across from me in the office of her attorney, Tom Ryan, Sarah Beattie relates the details of her work for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne in “constituent services,” which really amounted to working on the AG’s re-election campaign, creating documents, and, most importantly, raising money. In fact, according to…
I spotted Jay Heiler from across a crowded Pei Wei on a hot summer night in 2013. It had been years since I’d seen him last, but Heiler hadn’t changed a bit, a head or two taller than the other patrons, a boyish wave in his carefully combed blond hair…
A large majority of Arizonans think the land of SB 1070 is a “good place for minorities.”Gallup polled residents of all 50 states, asking, “Is the city or area where you live a good place or not a good place to live for racial or ethnic minorities.”In Arizona, 84 percent…
ABC 15 has been teasing an exclusive interview with Sheriff Joe Arpaio over the last few days, promising that “no question or topic is off limits.”Forgive us for believing that such controversial questions would be along the lines of, “Sheriff, why do the taxpayers deserve to pay the bill to…
